[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers the different sorts of lies, and different sorts of lie-telling, in politics.


• The Crux looks at how scientists try to explain language as a product of evolution.


• D-Brief notes new evidence that the bubonic plague devastated Neolithic Europe five thousand years ago.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that the United States has given Russia 60 days to fall in compliance with the INF Treaty.


• Keiran Healy describes how he used programming to make a map of Canada showing not just provinces but census divisions.


• Lyman Stone at In A State of Migration shares with readers his family's trip this spring to Germany and Denmark. (Photos are included.)


• JSTOR Daily notes the circumstances of the accidental invention of the terrarium in mid-19th century Britain, creating protected environments in a time of growing pollution.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the simultaneous dependence and devastation that marks the relationship of West Virginia to the coal industry.


• Marginal Revolution notes parenthetically how Somaliland stands out from the rest of Somalia in that one clan--the Isaaq, here--dominates.


• Christopher Benfey at the NYR Daily considers, using examples from the Bible and Frost and MacBeth and Pound, the idea of one being blind to metaphor.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how dark energy was proven to exist.


• Window on Eurasia notes how most Ukrainians, while skeptical of their country joining the European Union, want a European-style state.


• Arnold Zwicky considers different saints and different kinds of bears.